23 November 2013

In the recent demonstrations in Istanbul, the Turkish government may
have had superior police and security forces on the streets, but one
area where it lost the battle was on social networks, which
anti-government protesters used adroitly to get their viewpoint out to
the world. It seems the Turkish government has learned its lesson, and has decided to fight back according to this report in the Wall Street Journal:

About Me

I have been a technology journalist and consultant for 30 years, covering
the Internet since March 1994, and the free software world since 1995.

One early feature I wrote was for Wired in 1997:
The Greatest OS that (N)ever Was.
My most recent books are Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, and Digital Code of Life: How Bioinformatics is Revolutionizing Science, Medicine and Business.